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The Classroom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

This is a very long read that takes a few paragraphs to get to the point. It’s a point other … More

elearning, learning, teaching, tech

Rediscovering the telephone

Are you over video calls? Are email and quick messages too distanced? Is it currently difficult or impossible for you … More

communication skills, meetings, networking

What matters isn’t your writing software, it’s your file structures (sorry!)

Thanks to Anuja Cabraal who asked this question! It’s about 2,500 words of answer, so this is absolutely a Definitive … More

academic writing, doctoral writing, Editing, structure

Successful non-verbal communication for video-conferencing

Now that we have transitioned to working from home, and worked out some of the technical issues about making things … More

collaboration, meetings, teaching, teamwork

Virtual Shut Up and Write: now with added Video

This post was co-authored by a really generous bunch of people, some of whom we met for the first time … More

collaboration, shut up and write, work from home

Three secrets in MSWord that will supercharge your productivity

So Inger, Shaun and I have just finished another book. This one is called Level Up your Essays for undergraduate writers, and … More

Editing, polishing, publications, publishing, tech, tips, word processing

Planning your day, your week, your month… or even your year

(I hope you sang the title to the Friends’ theme tune.) It can be a challenge to juggle lots of … More

planning, time management

How do I make my online teaching resources accessible?

 Now that basically every course has at least some online components, making your web resources accessible is important. Because students … More

accessibility, teaching, tech

Teaching students to send good emails

I know most of my blog is about academic writing for theses, books and journal articles, but there is another … More

email, feedback, students

Yet another to-do list blog

Usually I keep my  to-do lists as handwritten scrawls, as marginalia, as a schedule in my calendar, or I remember … More

habits, hack, lists, productivity

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